Marcus Morris didn’t fully appreciate what he was missing all these years.

Like any basketball player, he had watched the NBA playoffs before. He even experienced the postseason with the Pistons in 2016, but that stay lasted just four games before the Cavaliers swept Morris’ club.

So Morris, 28, didn’t quite understand the enormity of the playoffs until this spring. It took the Celtics’ deep postseason run for the seven-year-veteran to grasp just how much he would enjoy the competition.

“Hell yeah, man,” Morris told The Athletic after practice Thursday afternoon. “One thing I said to myself, I was like, damn, I didn’t know the capacity of the games. I’ve been a winner my entire life coming from college and I haven’t really reached this far. I’m just telling my brother (Wizards forward Markieff), like, he is experiencing through me. So it’s kind of giving us both an edge, like, man we’ve gotta work harder. Man, this is what...

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